I don’t know the mayor, have never met him or any other city official. But that is a bit unfair. Every administration since the airport was closed and the creation of Mt. Trashmore began is equally at fault. The landfill was nothing more than a temporary deferral of the problem of trash disposal. It matters not how many years it has been in operation.

As for those who now wish to criticize, why haven’t we heard from them before, for instance when the Legislature was considering an expanded bottle bill last

year?

Then there are the proposed solutions for dealing with the closure: privatization of collections, a city-operated transfer station, pay-as-you-throw. None of these bear on the problem of disposal. As long as trash is generated it must be disposed of, no matter who collects it, who sorts it, and how the cost is distributed.

We are moving ever closer to the day when we will take “reduce, re-use, and recycle” much more seriously.